Book Club - November 15, 2025

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The Riverton Area Book Club convenes Saturday, November 15, to discuss the story West With Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge. This is the final book for 2025; meetings will start up again in January 2026. The Library, which began this book program in 2007, welcomes newcomers. The group meets from 10-11 am at The Library.


Rutledge's book, published in 2021, is a historical fiction based on true events. In 1938 two African giraffes, which survived a rough Atlantic crossing, began a journey to their final destination, the San Diego Zoo. They are hauled in a special truck driven by Woodrow, a young man, who encounters many Depression realities, such as racism and people who had never before seen a giraffe. It is his story, retold by him as an old man, that provides this captivating and heart-warming adventure of a young man coming of age and his two special companions.








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